Enemies Within

I wrote a while ago that I couldn't make sense of the actions of South Korea's President Roh Moo-hyun other than to interpret them as the actions of a DPRK stooge, and I suspect that my statement at the time was received with a great deal of ... scepticism, to put it lightly. Such scepticism is natural in a world saturated with conspiracy stories, but as it turns out, I may end up being not far off the mark at all: while Roh the Idiot himself hasn't been implicated yet, it is now looking as if a very substantial portion of South Korea's political elite has indeed been taking its marching orders from Pyongyang, and I have a hunch this scandal will reach high up the ranks of the Uri Party cadres once the protection provided by their miserable excuse of a President steps down next year. South Korea's current political course - under which its two biggest allies are constantly alienated even as a mortal enemy is placated at every turn - only makes sense if you assume the country is being run by traitors.

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[Steve Edwards]

I was talking to a sane elderly Korean chap (engineer working down at the shipyards) in Haiphong the other day and he had this exact idea. He thought that even Kim Dae Jung was probably a communist sympathiser, and that the Uri Party will soon be exposed as an effective communist fifth column.

I don't know how many Koreans think along these lines (perhaps the youth are the real problem in Korea), but we'd better pray for a GNP victory at the next elections.